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Michael Dukakis Is Snow Blind About the Blizzard of ’78
The hardworking staff yields to no man in our admiration and respect for former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, but we fear the Duke’s memory is starting to fade a bit. Dukakis held a press avail after Wednesday’s Summit o’ the … Continue reading
Welcome to Dustup 2016!
Dustup 2016 – a multi-platform project of Campaign Outsider (Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter to come) – is dedicated to chronicling the most notable antics of the current presidential field. After all, there are (at least) 22 stories in the Naked … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic-themed Jesuit prep school, CNN debate, Donald Trump, Dustup 2016, Endless Summer of Trump, F. Scott Fitzgerald, GOP presidential nomination, Hair Apparent, Jeff Zucker, military-themed boarding school, New York Military Academy, Summer of Trump, The Naked Ambition, Time, Vietnam War
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Dead Blogging ‘Radium Girls’ at Charlestown Working Theater
Well the Missus and I trundled over to Charlestown yesterday to catch D.W. Gregory’s Radium Girls and, say, it was . . . a really sad story. And a really fine production by Flat Earth Theatre. From their website: Corporate greed … Continue reading
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Tagged 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Arthur Roeder, Bridgette Hayes, Charlestown Working Theater, D.W. Gregory, Erin Eva Butcher, Flat Earth Theatre, Founding Donors Campaign, Grace Fryer, Katharine Daly, Kathleen C. Lewis, Radium Girls, The Farnsworth Invention, US Radium Corporation
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These Are the Saddest of Possible Words: Rafa to Rahfa! to Feh
With apologies to Franklin Pierce Adams In the swift decline and fall of Rafael Nadal, this was the worst. Last year he was Number One in the world. Last night he was just numb. In his third-round U.S. Open match with … Continue reading
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Tagged Douchebag Hall of Fame, Fabio Fognini, Rafael Nadal, The Guardian, U.S.Open
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What? Teen Criminalizes AND Victimizes Herself with Selfie?
From our Through the Looking Glass desk The headscratching staff is having some trouble absorbing this story from the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer (tip o’ the pixel to The Daily Beast). NC Law: Teens who take nude selfie photos face adult sex charges … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (Rick Perry Half-Wit Edition)
Apparently Donald Trump was on to something when he said “Rick Perry put on glasses so people think he’s smart.” From Politico: Rick Perry denies dropping out of 2016 race Rick Perry flatly denied Donald Trump’s assertion Thursday that he … Continue reading
Donald Trump Gets Mt. McKinley Wrong (Big Surprise)
From our To Know Trump desk Donald Trump, who is his own political reality show, has proven to be the most unreliable source since Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov’s Rubik’s novel Pale Fire. Exhibit Umpteen: This 1990 Vanity Fair profile by Marie Brenner (tip … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (R.I.P. Ritchie Valens Edition)
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured this House Call piece with Dion DiMucci (of Dion and the Belmonts) in its Mansion section. ‘The Wanderer’ Finds His Voice A teen hit-maker remembers his Bronx home and its connection to a fatal 1959 plane … Continue reading
Carly to NYT: Drop Dead
It all started when the New York Times’s Mr. Dealbook, Andrew Ross Sorkin, wrote this knee-buckling takedown last week of Carly Fiorina’s tenure at Hewlett-Packard. Representative sample: [I]t is curious to those of us who have reported on her business career that there … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, Carliac, Carly Fiorina, Carly for America, CNN, Daily News, Dealbook, Fiorinistas, Ford to City: Drop Dead, Gerald Ford, happy hour debate, Hewlett-Packard, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Marie Antoinette, New Hampshire Union Leader, New York Times, Politico Playbook, Republican National Committee, Tom Perkins
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